http://bythom.com/
Have a read of his article "inverted razor". Care to share any thoughts? I found it very interesting.
I don't think NIkon or Canon has started doing that as a majority of the market share are users that don't really do much editing.
But thoughts????
(12-25-2009 11:18 PM)CTM Wrote: [ -> ]http://bythom.com/
Have a read of his article "inverted razor". Care to share any thoughts? I found it very interesting.
I don't think NIkon or Canon has started doing that as a majority of the market share are users that don't really do much editing.
But thoughts????
Thanks, CTM for sharing the article. It was very thought provoking. Imagine our Nikon DSLR's having the best programmers creating apps to do interesting things in camera or having firmware tweaks to create special menus for one touch setups. The possibilities would be endless similar to the iPhone.
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If there were applications out there created for your camera, would you use them? Apparently Canon has some tweaks available.
I read a little more on the topic on another forum and there was a really good comparison between the Iphone and our SLR's. The iPhone can take a photo and have it edited / processed almost instantly via applications that you can download, why can't our SLR's??? The future of cameras maybe?
A very interesting article.
I guess what Thom said make a lot of sense in theory, but in reailty to develop something like a OS for DSLR with a good platform for 3rd party developers to support it is not really as easy as it sounds and definitely not something Nikon or Canon is familar with. It would cost them a lot of money to develop and support and maintain it and the return of investment will probably not cover the cost. Afterall DSLR is not an iPhone, no matter how many functions it has, most people will still not want to buy a DSLR because of the cost and the size.
On the other hand, Nikon (and other camera companies) has already added a lot of editing features to their latest cameras, which i've used from time to time for basic/quick/fun photo adjustments. But for anything more serious, i would definitely want to use my computer to do that. I think my single 22" LCD is too small for photoshop, i definitely don't want to do any semi serious photo editing on my DSLR LCD screen even if it's capable of doing that.
Maybe the compact camera market is probably the better target market for these kind of things but still i don't think Nikon or Canon can do something like that easily by themselves.
If you look back in history, you can see a lot of companies that tried to do too much and end up in failure or disaster as things just get out of hand quickly if you don't focus on your main business.